Visits to the UK in October

China and Britain issued a joint declaration on building a "global comprehensive strategic partnership for the 21st Century," featuring win-win cooperation and creation of a community of common destiny for mankind. The declaration specified the bilateral relations with pledges of joint efforts in fields ranging from the internationalization of China's currency RMB and China-European Union (EU) free trade to cyber security and climate change.

President Xi Jinping and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands at the end of a joint press conference in No 10 Downing Street, in central London, Oct 21, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]